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Want to do that because they are making a lot of money on the fundraising site of resisting the president. jesse: i agree. so, nancy, your left-wing cauc caucus, the radical and they dont want to budge an inch on any wall funding. they dont want to do anything on the border and want status quo so nancy, are you going to be able to do your liberal base in line here and history this as national security issue instead of a political issue? >> look, mr. president, i will have to say what my colleagu...

Matter where they come from. we will be offering the senate legislation to reopen government later today. standing in the way of hundreds of thousands of people is one man. the president of the united states who appeared to congratulate pelosi and insist on funding for the border wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. the president refused to take a single question from reporters. the stark difference in the current make up of the two parties and the coalitions and their politicians has never...

Border security plus allowing the d.r.e.a.m.ers to stay. theyve got to stay. plus, a number of other minor changes in the immigration law. so i think it gets through the senate and goes to the house. at that point, wont democrats have to vote for it? how would they not give a path to citizenship to 1.8 million people in the country? >> heres what im hearing from house democrats. you know, one senior aide described this proposal as a bit of a trojan horse. a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million...

Moment? >> i think if the president asked where can we deal on tax reform, what do you find acceptable, then yeah. i have never seen democrats say we wont talk to republicans. republicans have their own problems. they have a fx thaction that dot want to government. they came to deconstruct the government. the reality is -- we saw it with john boehner. we saw it last week. if you want to get anything done in congress today you have to deal with the democrats because the republicans cant get conse...

>> of course, were a much more demographically difbers state, right? iowa and new hampshire are superwhite states. a completely different system. iowa is a caucus, nevadas a cauc caucus. thats the only similarity. the latino vote here will be huge. a huge percentage of the democratic vote which is what hillary clinton knew and why she got some infrastructure built up here among latinos with some latino leaders helping organize her campaign. she has a huge headstart in the democratic race. >> of ...

Its almost as if youve got one faction saying were going to burn the whole house down if we dont get what we want. and then who wins? >> right. exactly. its an awful lot like the husband -- or ex-husband who has taken the ex-wife hostage and says i love you so much im going to kill you. it doesnt seem to make any sense at all. getting them to realign their perspective or refocus what their perspective and goal is is the only way to get them out of the mold. >> i want you to listen to what john b...

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